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graft
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graft, in surgery: see transplantation, medical transplantation, medical, surgical procedure by which a tissue or organ is removed and replaced by a corresponding part, either from another part of the body or from another individual.
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Some methods of grafting: (1) simple splice graft, showing cut surfaces of stock and scion and the …
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In horticulture, the act of placing a portion of one plant (called a bud or scion) into or on a stem, root, or branch of another (called the stock) in such a way that a union forms and the partners continue to grow. Grafting is used for various purposes: to repair injured trees, produce dwarf trees and shrubs, strengthen plants' resistance to certain diseases, retain varietal characteristics, adapt varieties to adverse soil or climatic conditions, ensure pollination, produce multifruited or multiflowered plants, and propagate certain species (such as hybrid roses) that can be propagated in no other way. In theory, any two plants that are closely related botanically and that have a continuous cambium can be grafted. Grafts between species of the same genus are often successful and between genera occasionally so, but grafts between families are nearly always failures.
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The composite graft was placed endonasally (figure 3, A) and was suture-fixated with transcutaneous 6-0 polypropylene sutures (figure 3, B).
Nasal bridge augmentation with a composite graft of autologous and ... by Mobley, Steven Ross / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
Osteoblast-like cells were shown to adhere, attain a normal morphology, proliferate and remain viable when cultured on the new composite graft.
NIST AIDS development of new bone graft materials. (News Briefs) by Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the Medical University of South Carolina, "This surgeon-blended composite graft very closely mimics the physical and biochemical properties of harvested iliac crest bone by combining a protein-laced cancellous scaffold with high volumes of autologous marrow when combined with BMA.
Wright Medical Group, Inc.'s ALLOMATRIX(R) Custom Biocomposite ... by Business Wire
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